Julian Borger – The Guardian Jan 4, 2020
Mike Pompeo has expressed disappointment with European reaction to the US killing of the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani, suggesting that the UK, France and Germany had not been sufficiently supportive.
The US secretary of state compared the European response unfavourably with US “partners in the region”, a likely reference to Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which Pompeo had consulted after the Suleimani assassination.
“I spent the last day-and-a-half, two days, talking to partners in the region, sharing with them what we were doing, why we were doing it, seeking their assistance. They’ve all been fantastic,” Pompeo told Fox TV. “And then talking to our partners in other places that haven’t been quite as good.
“Frankly, the Europeans haven’t been as helpful as I wish that they could be. The Brits, the French, the Germans all need to understand that what we did, what the Americans did, saved lives in Europe as well. Qassem Suleimani led and his IRGC [Revolutionary Guard] led assassination campaigns in Europe. This was a good thing for the entire world, and we are urging everyone in the world to get behind what the United States is trying to do to get the Islamic Republic of Iran to simply behave like a normal nation.”
European reaction to the drone strike killing of Suleimani and Iraqi Shia militants travelling with him in Baghdad, has been cautious and apprehensive. While noting Suleimani’s destructive role in the region, European governments have called for restraint.
Policy towards Iran has been a deeply divisive issue between the US and Europe since Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 multilateral agreement with Iran that imposed strict limits on its nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief. European officials have blamed Trump’s efforts to strangle Iran economically for the rising tensions in the Persian Gulf.
There were immediate signs that the killing of Suleimani would inhibit the broad coalition effort to wipe out Isis in Iraq and Syria, in the short term at least. Nato suspended its training of Iraqi security forces, currently led by Canada, and the US-led counter-Islamic State (Isis) mission in the region, Operation Inherent Resolve, also cut back its activities, including the training of Iraqi counter-terrorist units.
There are also reports that the US has been withdrawing forces involved in tracking down Isis fighters from exposed outposts in the region, to better defended bases.
The US is an Empire in terminal decline. Financially, socially and spiritually the US has hit rock bottom. The leadership has no morality. Mass murder, fraud and racketeering are now the established means of Government/Corporate activity. Small wonder that even globalist puppet leaders in Europe are having reservations about US psychopathic behaviour. It cannot go on, and unless change is forthcoming, humanity is facing a slow extinction. Let us hope that the transition of power further East brings the much needed uplift in global collective consciousness.
Differently from Americans, maybe the Europeans are still able to acknowledge an act of terrorism when they see it.
And Suleimani assassination must be considered as an act of terrorism.
Or perhaps Pompeo, does he believe that all Europeans desire becoming so degraded as Americans whose behaviour is more typical of mobsters rather than of a civilized populace?
Amereica is on its own here, you did you pay the price
bastards and take your damn military bases home when you leave
” get behind what the United States is trying to do to get the Islamic Republic of Iran to simply behave like a normal nation.”
That fat prick is worse than Chump. I guess he feels murdering a top general of Iran is behaving like a normal nation. What other nation does that? Oh I forgot, normal in the sense of emulating Israhell.
I am sure Pompeo would complain even if the wrong mouse got caught in a mousetrap. A mouse is a mouse is a mouse. So a terrorist act against an enemy (Soleimani helped reduce ISIS, Amerika only pretended to, because USA backed it), even one that fought well and did things against IsraHell, is still a terrorist act. All civilized nations ( now mostly Eurasian) think first, negotiate, before they commit crimes against humanity. Amerika is acting like a dog led on an IsraHelli chain or a horny male with its ballistic missile standing out/up! Pompeo, cut the legal crap and stick your hand out to shake hands and discuss issues with all parties concerned. That is all the European Big 3 are doing! That is a lot cheaper than MAD, earth’s destruction! I do not want that because some circumcised idiot, in IsraHell wants a global empire for JEWS only!
When Soleimani spoke he spoke on his own terms,
When pompus speaks he talks like an Israeli politician.